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we could see and watch clearly the scarred surface of the rock from 

 which the pufis of dust arose at intervals (fig. 16). It was evidently a 



Fig. 16. 



Ghief slips marked (X). 



A— B 8,256 ft. spur, 

 steep precipice among the older rocks at the head of the gorge due N. 

 of our 'position, many thousands of feet high on which landslips and fis- 

 sures, originally started by the earthquake, were still in action, helped 

 by the melting of snow along the top. Whenever a more than usual- 

 ly large slice of hillside collapsed it was followed by a gigantic pufT 

 of dust simulating volcanic action (See pi. 9, fig. 1.) In spite 

 of the size and activity of this slipping area, it did not warrant the 

 belief said to be common among the natives that the range as a whole 

 had moved and settled down at a lower elevation. In addition to the 

 prominent slip just referred to, the eye could detect minor slips all 

 round, whilst the soil-cap of the small and narrow ridge on which we 

 stood was exceedingly rent and fissured in E. — W. lines. Furthermore 



